Greater Emanuel Temple
Greater Emanuel Temple is a Baptist church at 813 Forrest Dr in Newport News, VA 23606-4513. It is one of 233 churches in Newport News, and one of 28 Baptist congregations in the city.
Greater Emanuel is so much more than "having church". We strive to develop the purpose in the person by teaching integrity and embracing individuals from all walks of life.
813 Forrest Dr, Newport News, VA, 23606-4513Phone: +17575915113 · Website: https://www.geat1150.org
Greater Emanuel Temple is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,736 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Greater Emanuel Temple
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults here carry depression. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 36.2%
- Obesity: 39.3%
- Depression: 23.2%
- Child Poverty: 22.8% (7.0–38.6%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.4% (9.6–25.1%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.9%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.5% (6.3–16.8%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Greater Emanuel Temple
- True Vine Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia ni Cristo — 0.1 mi away
- New Testament Christian Church of Newport News — 0.2 mi away
- Warwick United Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Vineyard Church of the Peninsula — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.5 mi away
- Resurrection Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
- Faith Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Community Bible Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tiny Hearts Big Faith — 0.7 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Waters Edge Church — 0.9 mi away
- Search Point Bible Fellowship — 1.1 mi away
- Temple Baptist Church — 1.4 mi away
- New Birth Outreach — 1.5 mi away
- Open Door Baptist Church — 1.6 mi away
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